Director, Silicon Design Engineering (Physical Design Timing)

Location: Hybrid work model with on-site work at assigned hirify.global sites in Santa Clara, California; Hillsboro, Oregon; or Austin, Texas, United States

Annual salary: $220,920–$311,890 USD

Company

hirify.global's Central Engineering Group develops scalable engineering solutions for product enablement, custom ASICs, and foundry enablement across the company's semiconductor businesses.

What you will do

• Perform timing analysis and optimization for high-performance, power-efficient SoC designs.
• Generate and validate timing constraints and resolve chip- and block-level timing violations.
• Develop timing models, physical design methodologies, and automation flows.
• Define process, voltage, and temperature conditions for timing analysis, product operating plans, and binning requirements.
• Collaborate with architecture, logic design, clocking, and full-chip teams to balance clock networks and optimize power delivery and partitioning.
• Drive advanced SoC clocking flows and low-power clock network guidelines through chip integration.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 12 years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree, 8 years with a master's degree, or 6 years with a PhD.
• Strong experience with static timing analysis, timing constraint generation, and timing optimization.
• Knowledge of SoC clocking, timing budgeting, constraint adaptation, digital design, and power-performance analysis.
• Experience with physical design tools, flows, methodologies, advanced process nodes, and EDA tools.
• Familiarity with TCL or similar scripting languages for automation and design optimization.

Nice to have

• Experience with signal integrity and power integrity analysis.
• Experience collaborating across architecture, logic design, and clocking teams on large-scale designs.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model combining on-site and off-site work.
• Competitive pay with stock bonuses.
• Health, retirement, and vacation benefits.
• Position of Trust requiring consent to and completion of an extended background investigation.